Agh - wished i was there! That first bit with the industrial revolution and underworlds 'and i will kiss' playing gave me goosebumps
Kind of feel a bit sorry for the chap filming it though. He paid all that money to witness an amazing specatcle, and he saw it through a shitty 4 inch LED screen on a camera.
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taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:06,
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^this
Why bother filming it? It'll be on telly with far better shots than you could hope to get on a phone. Just tape that and join in.
Its like the fuckers you see at concerts all trying to hold the camera steady while people around them are enjoying themselves.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:10,
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^this with bells on
Why not just enjoy it with your eyes, and watch professionally recorded footage? Its convenient that everyone has a camera of some sort to hand now, but really, does anyone watch what they recorded / photographed again and again?
I remember seeing Underworld at Brixton Academy last year, and i was raving my tits off in a trance, but was surrounded by immobile pillars of people holding their phones up in the air like techno-zombies
Im probably being a bit hippocritical, as im quite snap-happy, but when it comes to events like gigs and shows, you just have to forget about the camera, and savour it in person.
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taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:18,
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100% with you all
Not a gig, but a couple of years ago I was in a small boat following whales around a bay in Antarctica. I got some great shots with my DSLR of them surfacing & diving. Then one came right up beside the boat to check us out... and I put the camera down. I remember thinking "No, watch this, because it's not going to happen again."
Could have been a stunning photo, but I don't regret not taking it.
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You should have got your iphone out and took some instagram pics so you can impress all your friends with your "creative photography" skills :-P
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taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:41,
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Had a similar moment at Le Mans this year
Where I realised I wasn't likely to get back there any time soon so just stood back and tried to take it all in.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 11:05,
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^This^
There's something very strange about a person's first reaction to any event to be to film it and watch it later on a screen, rather than immerse themselves in it at the time.
There was some footage here in the spring from the cheese-rolling of a girl heading down the hill quite gingerly so she could film herself as she went. Except that she was thereby not filming herself participating in the event: she was just filming herself going carefully down a hill. Which is hardly worth watching, is it?
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 10:40,
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